A Dashboard to Analysis and Synthesis of
Dimensionality Reduction Methods in
Remote Sensing
Elkebir Sarhrouni #1, Ahmed Hammouch *2, Driss Aboutajdine#3
#LRIT, Faculty of Sciences, Mohamed V - Agdal University, Morocco,
A. Ibn Battouta. 4. B.P. : 1014 Rabat, Morocco
1 sarhrouni436@yahoo.fr
* LRGE, ENSET, Mohamed V - Souissi University, Morocco
A. FAR BP : 6207 - Rabat Instituts Rabat Morocco
Abstract—Hyperspectral images (HSI) classification is a high technical remote sensing software. The
purpose is to reproduce a thematic map . The HSI contains more than a hundred hyperspectral measures,
as bands (or simply images), of the concerned region. They are taken at neighbors frequencies.
Unfortunately, some bands are redundant features, others are noisily measured, and the high
dimensionality of features made classification accuracy poor. The problematic is how to find the good
bands to classify the regions items. Some methods use Mutual Information (MI) and thresholding, to
select relevant images, without processing redundancy. Others control and avoid redundancy. But they
process the dimensionality reduction, some times as selection, other times as wrapper methods without
any relationship . Here , we introduce a survey on all scheme used, and after critics and improvement, we
synthesize a dashboard, that helps user to analyze an hypothesize features selection and extraction
softwares.
Keyword-Feature Selection Software, Feature Extraction Software, Hyperspectral images
Classification, Remote Sensing.
I. INTRODUCTION
Due to the recent achievements in the remote sensing technologies, we are faced at large quantity of
information, organized at bidirectional measures of the same region, called bands, and taken at very closed
frequencies. The goal here is to determine patterns in order to classify the points and produce the thematic map
of the concerned region. This technology is called Hyperspectral Images (HSI), and it opens new applications
fields and renews the problematics posed in classification domain. Explicitly we are faced at reduction of
dimensionality problematic. the feature classification domain, the choice of data affects widely the results.So,
the bands don’t all contain the information; some ands are irrelevant like those affected by various atmospheric
effects,and decrease the classification accuracy. And there exist redundant ands to complicate the learning
system and product incorrect prediction [1].
Even the bands contain enough information about the scene they may can’t predict the classes correctly if the
dimension of space images, is so large that needs many cases to detect the relationship between the bands and
the scene (Hughes phenomenon) [5]. We can reduce the dimensionality of hyperspectral images by selecting
only the relevant bands (feature selection or subset selection methodology), or extracting, from the original
bands, new bands containing the maximal information about the classes, using any functions, logical or
numerical (feature extraction methodology) [4,6], or we can use an hybrid schema containing selection before
extraction.
An example of Hyperspectral image that largely served for academic search is AVIRIS 92AV3C (Airborne
Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer). [2]. It contains 220 images taken of the region "Indiana Pine" at
"north-western Indiana", USA [2]. The 220 called bands are taken between 0.4μm and 2.5μm. Each band has
145 lines and 145 columns. The ground truth map is also provided, but only 10366 pixels are labeled fro 1 to 16.
Each label indicates one from 16 classes. The zeros indicate pixels how are not classified yet, see Figure.1.
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